Historical place archive

Dakar in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Dakar in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1940–1940

Historical events in Dakar

1940

25 September 1940
Siege of Dakar
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill · World War, 2nd

Churchill decides to abandon the attempt to capture the port of Dakar

Provenance

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